Re: Non-Linux, non-Unix platforms

[Andrey Borzenkov]

On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 1:11 PM, A. D. Sharpe
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On 8/1/2014 11:56 PM, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
>>
>> В Fri, 1 Aug 2014 23:25:03 -0600
>> Dee Sharpe <address@hidden> пишет:
>>
>>> Is it possible to use Grub2 on platforms other than Linux? Such platforms
>>> may not use the run level setup, which Grub2 seems to rely on.
>>
>> What are you talking about? grub has nothing to do with run level.
>>
>>>   Also, what about platforms that aren't Unix-based? Such platforms may
>>>   not run bash scripts or have "etc/" directories.
>
> My apologies. Apparently, I misunderstood what I was reading & thought that
> this information was current. [1][2] Considering the way the scripts were
> named, I incorrectly assumed that it was using runlevels.
>
>
>> Current version 2.02 beta2 switched from shell scripts to compiled
>> binaries; e.g. Windows is supported natively, you can download prebuilt
>> package from alpha.gnu.org. Also platform support code is sufficiently
>> modular so adding support for new systems should be easier.
>
> Good to know!
>

As I understand, you are concerned about grub-mkconfig. In this case I
apologize for confusion - "easy configuration" was not ported to
Windows - it remains shell code. What was ported, were utilities
required to perform grub bootloader installation. But you would need
to create grub.cfg manually on Windows.